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Institutions Under Strain
Growth, demographic change, and contested legitimacy — how institutions absorb pressure, and what happens when they cannot.
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When the Purpose Has Moved
Institutions outlive the conditions they were built for. The question is whether anybody notices, and the people best positioned to notice have the strongest reasons not to raise it.
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Institutions Under Population Change
Rapid growth strains institutions in a specific way: the arrangements that worked depended on shared assumptions, and newcomers arrive without them. The strain is usually misread as a dispute about values.